Cindy Carcamo

Writer

Cindy Carcamo covers immigration issues for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was Arizona bureau chief and a national correspondent for The Times, focusing on border and immigration issues in the Southwest. A Los Angeles native, she has reported in Argentina and Mexico during her time as an Inter American Press Assn. scholar and as a reporter for the Orange County Register. She’s also reported from Guatemala and Honduras where her coverage was part of a team Overseas Press Club Award. She is also the recipient of the French-American Foundation's 2012 Immigration Journalism Award and was a finalist for the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Journalism and 2011 Livingston Award.

Recent Articles

Since Donald Trump was elected president in November, cities with large Latino populations have debated how to respond. Many activists have urged these communities to do everything they can to protect people in this country illegally, even though such efforts might jeopardize some federal funding...

Mayra Machado had a well-paying job as an ophthalmologist’s assistant that allowed her to drive her three children in a BMW to back-to-back school activities in her suburban Arkansas town. Few knew that her own mother brought her as a 5-year-old illegally to the United States from El Salvador to...

A proposal to decriminalize sidewalk vending in Los Angeles is scheduled to be taken up next month, prompted by concerns that people who are in the country illegally and convicted of misdemeanors for street peddling could be deported when Donald Trump assumes the presidency. The plan, which has...

Scores of communities across California and the nation over the last decade have declared themselves "sanctuary cities," a politically potent if largely symbolic designation aimed at expressing solidarity and granting protection for immigrants in this country illegally. During the Obama years,...

Not so long ago, Susana Terrones labored in the underground economy for a boss she said treated her poorly and paid her $7 an hour. What choice did she have, she said, having been brought to the United States illegally by her mother from Mexico when she was but six-months old. That changed the...

Manuel Acosta wanted to believe the time had finally come. For three decades, many Latinos felt American politicians targeted them. There was Proposition 187, the 1994 California measure denying public services to immigrants in the country illegally. That was followed by voter-approved bans on...

Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump rushed off stage briefly during rally Nov. 5, 2016, 6:12 p.m. Donald Trump begins his day in Florida and ends it in Colorado. Hillary Clinton heads to Florida and Pennsylvania. Trump is taken off stage during raucous rally; crowd members say they saw a man pull...

Linda Reedy has long been convinced that voter fraud was afoot, with ballots cast even by people who were not American citizens. But it wasn’t until after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump began to sound the drumbeat of rigged elections and asked supporters — particularly in hotly...